Microsoft’s latest Canary-flight experiment stitches small, familiar conveniences into a broader push to make generative AI an everyday part of the Windows shell: right‑click inside File Explorer and you may now see an AI actions submenu that offers visual search and one‑click image edits...
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Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel experiment pushes intelligence deeper into the Windows shell: a new AI actions submenu in File Explorer lets you right‑click images to run Bing Visual Search, blur or remove backgrounds, and erase objects — all without opening a full editor. This context‑aware...
Microsoft’s latest Dev‑Channel flight, Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.5790 (KB5065779), brings a focused set of Copilot+ features—most notably Fluid Dictation in Voice Access—along with wider Windows Studio Effects support for additional cameras, new Copilot‑driven File Explorer hover...
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Windows 11’s latest Beta-channel preview, Build 26120.5790, brings two pragmatic AI upgrades—fluid dictation and expanded Windows Studio Effects for additional cameras on Copilot+ PCs—alongside a UI tweak in File Explorer’s Home panel that may please some users but annoy others with added visual...
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Microsoft’s latest Canary-channel whisper landed with a familiar mix of small UX restorations and new AI shortcuts: Insiders running the reported Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27938 are seeing AI actions in File Explorer (visual search and quick image edits), a returning Notification Center...
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Microsoft has quietly restored the little thing that annoyed a surprising number of users: the expanded clock in Notification Center can once again show seconds — and that small user-experience win arrives alongside a broader set of AI-focused experiments that put generative image actions...
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Microsoft’s latest pre-release whisper to the Windows Insider Program’s most experimental ring landed with a thud of déjà vu: the Canary channel recently received a new build — reported as Build 27938 — that mainly repackages features already seen elsewhere in the Insider ecosystem, notably...
Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27938 to the Canary Channel, and the headline feature worth immediate attention is the introduction of AI actions in File Explorer — a right‑click context menu that brings image editing, web visual search, and document summarization into the...
Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot from the browser into the Windows desktop, adding a set of Copilot file actions directly into OneDrive’s Windows surfaces so subscribers can locate, summarize, compare and interrogate files without opening Office or a web browser—a change that reshapes...
Microsoft’s latest Beta-channel Insider preview pushes three changes that matter for day-to-day Windows users: on-device “fluid dictation” for Voice Access, Windows Studio Effects for alternate cameras on Copilot+ PCs, and a small but potentially divisive Ask Copilot option added to File...
Microsoft is rolling out a long-awaited change to Windows 11 that finally lets many users apply Windows Studio Effects to additional cameras — including USB webcams and rear-facing laptop cameras — on supported Copilot+ PCs, while also shipping a suite of related Copilot and accessibility...
Microsoft’s latest Insider flights quietly pushed two practical — and in some ways overdue — AI features into Windows 11: Fluid Dictation inside Voice Access and expanded Windows Studio Effects for alternative cameras on Copilot+ PCs, alongside small but useful File Explorer hover actions that...
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Microsoft is quietly rolling out a meaningful upgrade to voice input in Windows 11 Insider builds — a smoother, on-device dictation experience tied to Voice Access and targeted at Copilot+ hardware — while also shipping a focused Beta/Dev Channel flight that expands Studio Effects, tightens...
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Microsoft’s latest Dev Channel flight lands with a focused patch for Copilot+ PCs, smoother voice dictation, expanded Studio Effects camera support, and a collection of targeted fixes — but it also brings a set of hardware-gated rollouts and a handful of stability warnings that Insiders and IT...
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Microsoft’s push to fold generative AI into everyday file management just moved a major step closer to most Windows users: Microsoft 365’s Copilot is now integrated with OneDrive inside Windows, letting subscribers invoke Copilot actions from File Explorer and the OneDrive Activity Center on the...
Microsoft PowerToys is no longer a niche tweak for obsessive tinkerers — it’s a practical, polished productivity suite that many Windows users now install the moment they set up a new PC. A recent roundup that highlights “8 PowerToys you’ll use every day” captures why: the suite bundles small...
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Whenever I connect the device, Windows mounts it right away. I want to use another MTP app, but there is a race condition between that app and Windows. I have already disabled AutoPlay in Settings →...
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A popular write‑up on Touch Reviews summarizes a claim by a tech creator (named in that piece as “epcidiy”) that Windows 11’s perceived sluggishness — slow right‑click menus...
Microsoft pushed a small-but-significant Canary-channel preview on August 29, 2025, when Windows Insiders received Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27934, a focused flight that fixes several user-facing stability issues while adding an important caution for anyone relying on built‑in recovery...